What does anyone think the perfect human is? What are the traits that underlie this concept?

Hmmm… The perfect man (Human, to clarify). To begin, this is a man who abides by the rules of the universe. One who knows truth. One who doesn’t question, doesn’t look for answers, and has all answers. Sounds much like a God and in essence the idea of a God to humans is one much like a human and I wonder why that is… All we know is what we’ve seen on Earth. Our race is shaped from it. We may think at times that we are perfect, but there is so much more to excellence. It is essentially infinite, limited only by our physical bounds. But this isn't something explored completely and people have a tendency to think they know the limit. They are skeptics though. We must be aware that our perception is limited, that reality isn't always what it seems.

The perfect human understands his reality. He has to and we should. All that we see as art, as aesthetic, is just applied excellence. People always have to train to be the best at something. No one is born excellent. Some are born closer to and have an easier time acquiring skill, but unless a person is physically limited, I believe most can be excellent. So, to think of perfection as something unnatural or Godly, would be to misperceive the reality of the matter.

What I’m trying to spell out is that there is a truth to the occurrence of all that happens outside of our perception - a debatable statement, but I'm taking a stance here. As one looks closer at any object, as one physically gets nearer to an object, one will notice that it only gets more and more complex. And we know now, through our 20-year-old technology that we can only get so deep - atoms, electrons, photons, neutrinos, etc... and after that we can only get deeper theoretically--mathematically. But the deeper we get, in effect, the more we know about an object. This underlies fields like Chemistry, Geology, Biology, Physics and come to think of it, ALL others. Every field is a study. And it is much literally like a field in every sense of the word – An expansion in two directions atop the planes of the universal fabric: A graph, a field of grass, a field of energy. And to study, to make something a study means quite literally to analyze. And here I come back to aesthetics, which is the heart of what the perfect human is. And the aesthetic of a study would be trying to get as close to complete knowledge of a field as one can possibly get. The more time we spend studying anything, the closer we get, the more we know about and the better we are at understanding whatever it may be - basketball, the guitar, or even a rock on the ground. Of course we have limitations, we can't know everything there is to know, but I wish to leave this thought to a different conversation.

The perfect human is an aesthetic being, a being of excellence. But if man wants to become the perfect human, he can’t start there. Naturally he must build himself to that point. And to get better, means to increase one’s ability to perform an amount of work in a given amount of time. This is a physical interpretation, but informally, I’ll say that getting better is simply increasing the amount of knowledge one has for a field and utilizing it for an advantageous effect. To be a perfect human we’ll have to get better at things. And the closer one gets to an object or a field, the more information one can gather from it and then in turn utilize that information in some form. The closer a person gets to something, the better able they are to see it and react. I know I’m being redundant and I apologize, but it’s crucial that this point be solidified here.

There is a science to our relation with the world. How we learn, how we perceive is all connected to how well we interact with it all. Each of us has a life, our own life, our own little expanse in space. We own this territory, our bodies, like no other. And understanding this, we should respect ourselves as if we were a slave to ourselves, as if we weren’t our property. If respect is to mean anything, it must be directed at oneself before anything else. To get better, to be Perfect, we’ll have to work to get at what we truly are. This is essential before we can know how to interact with everything we will come across.

The perfect human therefore, will know how to deal with any situation. He will understand objects inside and out. He will nonetheless understand his existence, his birth, the duration of his life and his death. These are what make up existence.

But the perfect human is also something that can be felt, I believe. I can talk of how to systematically define what perfect means, what a human is and how these terms can relate to one another, but to an extent, most people who’ve lived more than 20 years, know how to perceive. We can sense things through our perception that we cannot articulate well. We can sense complex things and they come across our realization as an amalgam of emotions, as a feeling. And that is something that can be applied to perfect. I feel that if I were to see the perfect man or a man closer to perfection than any other, I would know him as such without having previously defined all the terms needed to know such a thing. I feel there are ways that the perfect man functions that would stand out because everything he would do would be perfect – controlled, refined, aesthetic. And I evoke this because I feel it is important to acknowledge the other side of our perception. It is a part of who we are naturally. And the perfect man would have aspects that are born of the natural world and not of the scientific world – that is not to set science and nature as opposites. The perfect human would be cool and elegant. The perfect human would know how to carry himself, he would know how to eat properly. He would know what to do and where to go. He would dress perfectly and he would speak perfectly. And each of these are debatable as far as perfection is concerned - what is the perfect way to dress? So to put it better, a perfect man or a more perfect man would know himself. He would have built his identity and so he would have considered how to do everything it is that he does and taken all to the highest level of aesthetic possible for him.

Now, why I use the word natural is because when the perfect man first enters your mind, don’t you already feel that you have something of a picture? Isn’t there an identity we already place with perfection? You see the utmost of everything you find important in people and it is placed partially upon a dark figure, representing a human, in your mind. This is the start of the thought and it comes without your aid. It just pops in there and that is why I delineate it as natural, apart from scientific. We have a definition for the perfect human that exists separate from thinking about it. This is because we have thought about how to better ourselves without taking the time to define terms and attributes. When we don’t think things through, a non-perfect function, we in a way run a crash course through what we deal with, whatever it may be. And a perfect person can't do that. Perfection is about refinement. Perfection is about self-control to its limits.

So, what do we get from thinking about all of this? Why is it important? Well, I think it's simply awareness and a goal. It's easier to push somewhere when you have a direction and if we realize that we all wish to be better, to be Great, then we have to analyze the peak of these mountains. Getting anywhere, in a sense, is much like walking a path and when we walk a path we do so in a direction. If we can see the end of our path and that is the destination we wish to get to, then we have direction, we have a goal and we know how to accomplish it. If we cannot see anything at the end of the road, then we are lost. The difference here is that we aren't on a road, we are in a more complex situation here that we deem Life. And in life, we define our terms, we build our reality - largely. So we have the benefit here of having the ability to make perfection a goal and a destination.

The perfect human is a different being for us all. Our lives precede our perception. We are all built up from the ground - the ground being our birth. And as we encounter all the aspects of the world, we add definitions to our minds concerning everything - archetypes. That being the case, everyone's archetypes will naturally be different, to an extent, from every other human being and as such they will define the perfect man differently. But there are things I think we can all agree on as being good, as being the right thing to do. There are qualities to people that we find admirable and there is a reason for that. We have reasons for admiring traits in each other.

So, what, to you, is the perfect human being? Can we come to a conclusion about this? Will we have to define our morality first? Should we try to define a perfect man, a Jesus, an Ubermensche? Or is this something that as a society of individuals, we will never completely agree upon?

I invite others to expand this thought.